I was in North Carolina last week helping my brother with a seminar and giving a presentation on Social Marketing. The seminar, a Writer's Camp, was held on his farm, and the people who stay there bunk down in pretty rough & rustic cabins, making it a bit like camping. I wanted to travel light because I wasn't sure how much room I'd have.

I precolored a few pages in this Sketchbook, with Spectrum Noir markers, so I could do some Bleedthrumanades (Got lemons? Make lemonade. Got marker bleed-thru? Make Bleedthrumanade.)
I'll have at least one more post with the Epsilon that will feature work done with other media.

I stamped my Steampunk Swan Ship image onto a piece of Delight clay that was left over from another project. It was about 1/8 of an inch thick and already dried. I cut the image out with a pair of scissors and colored it with my Promarkers.

I stamped the Trees background onto the black cardstock with Brilliance Starlight Silver and cut it out. I cut out small areas for the background to show through. (Sorry for the blurred image-that's my camera, not the stamped image!).

Turning to the matte board, I covered about 2/3 of it with a piece of Scrapbook pape…

I am back from my seminar in North Carolina but still playing catch-up. I found a few patterns and posts of interest while I was gone, but I know I missed a lot. Fortunately for you, Genevieve is on the ball, so I'll send you to her site to catch some of what I missed:

For every round of the Rhodia Journal Swap, 12 journal-ers are sharing their 'Favorite Thing's. This round I'm sharing my Zentangle®-inspired pattern steps. Because the swap is done in a Rhodia dotWebbie, I'm taking advantage of its grid of light gray dots and sharing patterns that are difficult to draw freehand. Any of these patterns can be done without grid paper but are much easier to do with some guide for the eye.

This has been fun! I may do the same thing for the next round.

You can see my patterns Pywakit, Prow, Reel , Wormhole, Circle-In and Fortified in earlier posts. See what others are doing in their Rhodias for the swap on Tumblr.

For every round of the Rhodia Journal Swap, 12 journal-ers are sharing their 'Favorite Thing's. This round I'm sharing my Zentangle®-inspired pattern steps. Because the swap is done in a Rhodia dotWebbie, I'm taking advantage of its grid of light gray dots and sharing patterns that are difficult to draw freehand. Any of these patterns can be done without grid paper but are much easier to do with some guide for the eye.

For every round of the Rhodia Journal Swap, 12 journal-ers are sharing their 'Favorite Thing's. This round I'm sharing my Zentangle®-inspired pattern steps. Because the swap is done in a Rhodia dotWebbie, I'm taking advantage of its grid of light gray dots and sharing patterns that are difficult to draw freehand. Any of these patterns can be done without grid paper but are much easier to do with some guide for the eye.

You can see that the sketchbooks come in many sizes and I was very excited to receive a couple of the hardbacks to review. These are new

I'm at Writer's Camp in North Carolina to give a presentation and help out so I didn't really have time to do much artwork this weekend. However, I wanted to post something, and I've seen many questions about the differences between these various sketchbooks. So I decided to write up a quick post (quick for me--it's pretty long for you, lol) that highlighted the differences.

I did a test page with swatches of different media that will hopefully help you determin…

For every round of the Rhodia Journal Swap, 12 journal-ers are sharing their 'Favorite Thing's. This round I'm sharing my Zentangle®-inspired pattern steps. Because the swap is done in a Rhodia dotWebbie, I'm taking advantage of its grid of light gray dots and sharing patterns that are difficult to draw freehand. Any of these patterns can be done without grid paper but are much easier to do with some guide for the eye.

You can see my patterns Pywakit, Prow and Reel in earlier posts. See what others are doing in their Rhodias for the swap on Tumblr.

I won Joe Rotella's 'Under the Sea' Elmer's & X-Acto giveaway! It's too late for you to enter, but you can still watch Joe's fantastic party invitation tutorial and video that shows what I won. Elmer's has some wonderful products--they aren't just about glue!

The first set of stamps based on my artwork have shipped out from Viva Las Vegastamps! and people are starting to use them. Today's post from Susan M. Brown is a wonderful example of using a couple of them as resist backgrounds.

Thismonth's office supplies review package from Shoplet and Esselte was a handy one. You can never have enough File Foldersor File Jackets and even though I have other Daily Planners, the one included in this package has a great layout--just in time for me to use it for a trip to North Carolina.

For every round of the Rhodia Journal Swap, 12 journal-ers are sharing their 'Favorite Thing's. This round I'm sharing my Zentangle®-inspired pattern steps. Because the swap is done in a Rhodia dotWebbie, I'm taking advantage of its grid of light gray dots and sharing patterns that are difficult to draw freehand. Any of these patterns can be done without grid paper but are much easier to do with some guide for the eye.

Currently I'm part of a DotWebbie journal swap that is being hosted by Rhodia. There are 12 of us and the overall theme is 'Favorite things'. Each month, I've chosen a different Favorite Thing. I currently belong to the Viva Las Vegastamps! Design Team, and of course, sooner or later I had to visit the subject of rubber stamping!

For this month's round I decided to recreate a little book I'd done for a friend's child, using my stamps, Zentangle®-Inspired patterns and bad poetry. Some stamp pad inks do go through on Rhodia paper (which is strange, because even fountain pen ink doesn't!) and we're in the middle of our journals, so the curve of the paper made stamping more difficult. Normally, I work with this rather than avoid it, but I had something specific in mind this time. So I stamped my images on a Rhodia 'R' pad, colored them with Verithin colored pencil, and cut them out. I used Miracle tape to adhere the cut-outs to the dotW…

For the the sixth round of the Rhodia Journal Swap I decided to share my 'Favorite Thing' of creating steps that deconstruct designs and make them easier to draw. My work is Zentangle®-inspired, but for the patterns I'm creating for this journal, I'm departing even further from the Zentangle method. (Tomorrow, you'll see the Children's book I did in the 5th round of the swap)

Because the swap is done in a Rhodia Webnotebook, which has a grid of light gray dots I decided to share patterns that are a bit difficult to draw freehand. They can be done without grid paper but are much easier to do with squares.